MS. Bodl. 257
Summary Catalogue no.: 2047
Contents
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
Decoration
One fine, many good initials. Cf. other contemporary Reading manuscripts.
Good sketches added, fols. 141v, 172–173 etc., 15th century, third quarter, in Flemish style: our Lord, a nun and saints (Pächt and Alexander iii. 140, pls. XV, XCIII)
Binding
Stamped brown leather on older reversed boards, Reading work of about A.D. 1500
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Reading Abbey, ex libris: 'Hic est liber .S. Marie de Radinge. Quem qui celauerit. & fraudem de eo fecerit anathema sit', 13th cent.; identifiable in medieval catalogues of 1192 and the fourteenth century (see MLGB); and cf. MS. Bodl. 241.
Presented by William Burdet of Sonning in 1608.
MS. Bodl. 257 - endleaves (fols. i, 195)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Polyphonic music
Four leaves; see the DIAMM record. The flyleaves have been moved from their original position
Physical Description
Polyphonic notation.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-27: Description revised to include all information in SC.